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Hurray!!! Google Is 18 Years Old Today

The internet giant "Google" is 18 years old today. They are celebrating this with an animated Doodle shown to web browsers around the world.

The company, founded by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin in 1998, traditionally marks its birthday on the Google homepage on
September 27.
In 2004, its 6th birthday Doodle went online on September 7 and in the year before that, it was September 8.

In
fact, none of these dates seem to have any particular relevance.The
company's own history lists its incorporation date in 1998 - the nearest
thing to a corporate birthday - as September 4.

And the idea for
Google began years earlier in 1996, as a research project at Stanford
University, when Page and Brin had a new idea for a search engine that
would rank pages by how many other sites linked to it, rather than the
crude format others used at the time - ranking them by how often the
search term appeared on the page.

Google alluded to confusion
over its birthday in 2013, admitting it had celebrated its birthday on
four different dates, but September 27 now seems to have stuck. The
company may have just chosen the date because it was what the first
birthday Doodle in 2002 used.
Google has celebrated its birthday with
a Doodle every year since its fourth birthday in 2002. However, the
first Doodle, for the Burning Man festival in 1998, actually occurred
before the company was technically founded.

Last year, the
company split under a new corporate umbrella, Alphabet, which hived off
more outlandish divisions of the company such as its self-driving cars
unit and robotics subsidiary Boston Dynamics. The change saw its
founders move away from Google’s day-to-day running.
18 years after
it was founded at Stanford University, Google is one of the world's most
powerful companies. It is second only to Apple in value, with a market
capitalization of $541bn (£417bn).

Page and Brin are ranked 12th
and 13th on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world, with net
worths of $35.2bn and $34.4bn respectively.

However, not even
Google seems to really know when it was formed. Since 2006, it has
celebrated its birthday on September 27, but the year before that, had
it as September 26.wever, not even Google seems to really know when it
was formed. Since 2006, it has celebrated its birthday on September 27,
but the year before that, had it as September 26. In 2004, its 6th
birthday Doodle went online on September 7 and in the year before that,
it was September 8